Bill > HB1

This bill: - Increases the minimum annual salary for classroom teachers, full-time school librarians, full-time school counselors certified under Subchapter B, and full-time school nurses, with higher minimum salaries for teachers with more years of experience and additional certifications or designations. - Requires the agency to collect data on teacher recruitment and retention, including vacant teaching positions. - Waives certain certification examination and application fees for new teachers. - Allows the State Board for Educator Certification to grant exceptions to teachers who resign their probationary, continuing, or term contracts early under certain circumstances. - Establishes a grant program to expand implementation of local optional teacher designation systems. - Creates a program to reimburse school districts that hire retired teachers for the increased contributions to the Teacher Retirement System. - Requires school districts to allow teachers to elect not to use paid leave concurrently with unpaid family/medical leave. - Establishes a Texas Teacher Residency Partnership Program to provide teaching residencies. - Expands certain pre-K eligibility criteria and creates a grant program to support school district partnerships with community child-care providers for pre-K. - Makes various changes to the public school finance system, including new allotments and funding adjustments. - Establishes an education savings account program for eligible students. - Makes changes related to virtual education, special education, accountability, and other general public school provisions.

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